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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
The March on Washington
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

The March on Washington

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
DateAugust 28, 1963
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 3/16 × 9 in. (33.5 × 22.9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 23 15/16 × 20 1/16 in. (60.8 × 51 cm)
InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.12
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. It shows a a man with his hands together and another with one arms raised. This is a small section of a crowd of people.

ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, Fall, 2001. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 82-85.